Shaved skulls, caps and black clothes: dozens of hooligans who came in Brussels, attending the Belgian Cup final, won 2-1 by FC Bruges against Sporting of Anderlecht, Sunday May 4, engaged in acts of extreme violence in the metro and in municipalities in the region like Molenbeek, Jette, and Laeken. Smoking, insults, devastated shops and cries for populations of foreign origin – “Go to your country”, “We’re going to kill you”, “No to the veil” : The authors’ membership of ultra-violent far-right groups was in doubt. A group, the North Fanatics 13, was appointed as the main instigator of these incidents.
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-As a response, groups of young people from the districts concerned have attacked supporters of Bruges. One of them was shot in the ankle. In total, some 80 people were injured, including two police officers and a person who was torn off by a smoke.
After the incidents, which extended until the middle of the night from Sunday to Monday and led to sixty arrests, new violence took place in the center of the capital on Monday evening. Five hundred people mobilized, after a call “To the riot” Launched on social networks, intended to denounce the racist acts of the day before. Minging with a parade of support for Palestine, they quickly faced the police deployed in large numbers. Furniture has been destroyed and around twenty arrests was made.
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